Belinda Archibong is an Associate Professor at Johns Hopkins University School of 
Advanced International Studies (SAIS).

Her research areas include development economics, political economy, economic history 
and environmental economics with an African regional focus. Her research investigates 
the role of historical institutions and environment in inequality of access to public 
services and the development of human capital, particularly in the areas of education, 
labor and health. Research topics include studies of the effects of epidemics on gender 
gaps in human capital investment, the economics of epidemics and vaccination, and the 
impacts of air pollution from gas flaring on human capital outcomes; with a focus on the 
ways in which institutions mitigate or exacerbate the impacts of climate change and 
environment on inequalities around gender and marginalized groups. Other work focuses 
on the effects of institutions around prison labor, protest and taxation on socioeconomic 
inequality, and a recent body of work studies how to leverage access to digital markets to 
improve employment and firm productivity and reduce gender inequality in labor 
markets.

Archibong is a Senior Fellow with the Global Economy and Development program at the 
Brookings Institution and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic 
Research (NBER). She was previously an Associate Professor of Economics at Barnard 
College, Columbia University. Her research is published/forthcoming in numerous 
academic journals, and her work has also been cited by various media outlets including 
the New York Times, NPR and Al Jazeera, and informed testimony on vaccine policy to 
US Congress.

She received a B.A. in Economics/Philosophy and a Ph.D. in Sustainable Development 
from Columbia University. Her CV and further information can also be found on 
her personal website.